Lists

I am a complete novice to SharePoint. I appreciate any help that is provided.

I created a site. On this site I need to have some sort of List (at least I think I can use a list). Basically, it has to look like an excel spreadsheet where a cell for a lack of a better word can have a background color.

I got as far as creating a dataview, but that looks like access and I can't add any colors.

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